tabouretn.
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a. A low seat or stool, without back or arms, for one person: so called originally from its shape. privilege of the tabouret: see quot. 1656.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun]
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stool1390
tabouret1656
tambouret1658
mora1818
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tabouret, a pincase; also a little low stool for a childe to sit on. In France the priviledge of the Tabouret is of a stool for some particular Ladies to sit in the Queens presence.
1679 tr. M. Mancini Apol. 30 I had the priviledge of sitting on a Tabourette in the Queens presence.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 191 Soon as a Stranger comes, she'll him embrace, Near her proud Person, on a tabret Place.
1858 D. Masson Life Milton (1859) I. 704 A studied slight put upon Lady Scudamore by refusing her the honour of the tabouret,—i.e. the right of being seated—on the occasion of a visit of ceremony to the French queen.
1899 W. C. Morrow Bohemian Paris 60 He had bought a new easel and two rush-bottomed tabourets.
b. U.S. A small table, esp. one used as a stand for house-plants; a bedside table.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > small table
roundel1503
stand1582
night table1730
monopodium1807
teapoy1828
tray stand1844
nightstanda1852
guéridon1853
kettle-stand1881
tabouret1916
1916 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Fall 1244/2 Tabourets or jardinier stands.
1968 J. Updike Couples iii. 228 One of his flippers kicked over a tabouret holding a crammed ashtray and a small vase of asters.
1984 M. Babson Trail of Ashes iii. 33 Look in the bedside tabouret for a little nightcap.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > needle > needle case
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needle-housec1400
aguilera1425
needle case1440
tabouret1656
needle-book1693
emery bag1845
emery1864
emery cushion1873
strawberry1903
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > pin > pin-case
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tabouret1656
pin poppet1778
1656 [see sense 2a].
1891 in Cent. Dict.
4. A frame for embroidery, a tambour-frame.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > frame
stoolc1385
tent1548
frame1728
tambour1780
tambour-frame1781
web frame1845
tabouret1858
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tabouret,..an embroidery frame.
1891 in Cent. Dict.
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